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Tax Principles, Product Differentiation and the Nature of Competition

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  • Nigar Hashimzade

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  • Hassan Khodavaisi

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  • Gareth Myles

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We analyze the choice between the origin and destination principles of taxation when there is product differentiation and Bertrand competition. If taxes are redistributed to consumers and demand is linear the origin principle dominates the destination principle whatever the degree of product differentiation and extent of economic integration. With nonlinear demand the origin principle dominates if there is sufficient economic integration. When the social value assigned to tax revenue is higher than the private value, the destination principle dominates for intermediate values of product differentiation and economic integration. The same results are also shown to hold with Cournot competition. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

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Article provided by Springer in its journal International Tax and Public Finance.

Volume (Year): 12 (2005)
Issue (Month): 6 (November)
Pages: 695-712

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Handle: RePEc:kap:itaxpf:v:12:y:2005:i:6:p:695-712

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Keywords: commodity taxation; imperfect competition; Bertrand competition; Cournot competition;

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  1. Scott McCracken & Frank Stähler, 2010. "Economic integration and the choice of commodity tax base with endogenous market structures," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 17(2), pages 91-113, April.
  2. Ourania Karakosta & Christos Kotsogiannis & Miguel-Angel Lopez-Garcia, 2009. "Does Indirect Tax Harmonization Deliver Pareto Improvements in the Presence of Global Public Goods?," CESifo Working Paper Series 2668, CESifo Group Munich.
  3. Christos Kotsogiannis & Miguel-Angel Lopez-Garcia, 2007. "Imperfect competition, indirect tax harmonization and public goods," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 14(2), pages 135-149, April.
  4. Haufler, Andreas & Schulte, Christian, 2007. "Merger Policy and Tax Competition," Discussion Papers in Economics 2074, University of Munich, Department of Economics.
  5. Gareth D. MYLES, 2006. "Tax policy and European Union governance," Departmental Working Papers 2006-10, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano.
  6. Nigar Hashimzade & Hassan Khodavaisi & Gareth Myles, 2011. "Country characteristics and preferences over tax principles," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 214-232, April.
  7. Andreas Haufler & Christian Schulte, 2011. "Merger policy and tax competition: the role of foreign firm ownership," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 121-145, April.

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